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NITE) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A. A. GAGET, 0F PARIS, FRANCE.

APPARATUS FOR HOLDING MUSIC, &c.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,581, dated November 10, 1857.

To all whom t may concern: u

Be it known that I, ANDR ADoLPHE GAGET,

of 39 Rue de lEchiquier, Paris, in the Empire of France, a native of France, and subject of His Majesty Napoleon III, have invented or discovered an Improved Apparatus for Binding or Holding Together Music, Manuscripts, and other Loose Papers, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes it from all other things before known and of the usual man ner of making, modifying, and using the same.

The improved apparatus for binding together music, manuscripts and other loose papers consists first of a back of peculiar construction; secondly of metallic binding hooks placed at the top and bottom of the sheets; thirdly of a hold fast or brace applied to the binding hooks for xing them in their proper position.

In order that the invention may be better understood I will now describe the annexed sheet of drawings.

Figure 1 represents a front view of the improved binding apparatus. Fig. 2 a side view in section of the same. Fig. 3 a lplan of the apparatus showing the manner of applying it for binding together loose papers so as to form a book and Fig. 4 is a front view of the book open.

The apparatus is composed of a back A of wood or other suitable material having a support B fixed transversely at its top and bottom part so as to leave a space or groove C. The short ends of the hooks D enter these grooves and the long ends pass over the supports B and serve to hold the sheets When it is required to bind together music or loose sheets of paper, I first draw out the braces F F to their greatest extent and place the papers in their proper position on the back A they are then fixed by passing the long ends of the hooks over them and 5 the short ends into the space or groove C as represented in Figs. 3 and t. When as many sheets as are required are held in this manner the braces F F are pressed down upon the tops of the hooks for the purpose of keeping them in their proper position. The back can be constructed of any suitable width and length and many modifications of the apparatus may be made without departing from the principle of construction.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to be secured by Letters Patent is The construction and employment of the hooks D and holdfasts or braces F in con nection with the back A for the purpose of 

